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title: bet, what would the king pay for the princess? — Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse,… · tree and pragmatics
description: bet, what would the king pay for the princess? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays d…

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bet, what would the king pay for the princess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bet · **What happens:** pay

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1186-pg3027-part52/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t8:1
# text = bet, what would the king pay for the princess?
1	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | would | bet |  |  |  |  | for the princess | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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half his kingdom and his daughter's hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t8:o1:1
# text = half his kingdom and his daughter's hand
1	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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three villages

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t8:o2:1
# text = three villages
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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all the gold in the royal treasury plus land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t8:o3:1
# text = all the gold in the royal treasury plus land
1	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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half his kingdom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t8:o4:1
# text = half his kingdom
1	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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